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Multiple ChoiceIdentify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1.

Which choice best completes the
diagram?

a.

Spain

c.

Japan

b.

USSR

d.

Austria

2.

To get resources, the Japanese military invaded

a.

Taiwan.

c.

Tibet.

b.

Korea.

d.

Manchuria.

3.

Referring to the time line above, choose the
most accurate statement.

a.

World War II began during Roosevelt’s first term in office.

b.

Hitler’s first
attack in the war was on Rhineland.

c.

The “destroyers-for-bases”deal
between the United States and Britain occurred before the United States signed legislation limiting
trade with warring nations.

d.

Poland was the first front in World War
II.

4.

According to the time line above, which of
the following events took place first?

a.

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

b.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
inaugurated

c.

Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

d.

Spanish Civil War
begins

5.

The political ideology of which of the
following countries was most similar to Germany’s?

a.

Italy

c.

Japan

b.

Russia

d.

both b and c

6.

Which political ideology most closely
resembles U.S. principles?

a.

Japan

c.

Russia

b.

Italy

d.

none of the
above

7.

Japan’s goal in attacking Midway Island was to

a.

gain a base from which to attack Hawaii.

b.

cut American supply
lines to Australia.

c.

destroy the American fleet.

d.

gain control of
resources on Midway.

8.

As a result of a presidential order allowing the military to declare any part of
the United States to be a military zone,

a.

many areas of the West became off-limits to civilians.

b.

many Japanese
Americans were moved to internment camps.

c.

much of the Nevada desert became a weapons
testing ground.

d.

many military installations sprang up along the West
Coast.

9.

Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because

a.

the Japanese were using it as a base to attack the U.S. fleet.

b.

the main Japanese
naval force was stationed there.

c.

U.S. planes could bomb Japan from
there.

d.

the islands were an important link in the Japanese supply
lines.

10.

The United States caused massive fires in Tokyo by dropping bombs filled
with

a.

amphtrac.

c.

DUKW.

b.

dynamite.

d.

napalm.

11.

The “Double V” campaign meant

a.

victory in Europe and victory in the Pacific.

b.

victory over
Hitler’s racism abroad and victory over racism at home.

c.

victory over the
Nazis and victory over the Fascists.

d.

victory on land and victory on the
seas.

12.

A key to the American success at Midway was

a.

the use of new sonar and radar technology.

b.

breaking the
Japanese Navy’s secret code.

c.

the use of long-range B-25 bombers launched
from aircraft carriers.

d.

American
submarines.

“I never wanted to have to fight this war on two fronts. We haven’t
got the Navy to fight in both the Atlantic and Pacific. . . . ” —Franklin
Roosevelt

13.

In the passage above, which two fronts was
Roosevelt referring to?

a.

Japan and Germany

c.

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

b.

Japan and
China

d.

Army and Air
Force

“[Midway] put an end to the long period of Japanese offensive
action.” —Admiral Ernest King, commander in chief of the U.S. Navy

14.

The Battle of Midway was a ____ point in the
war.

a.

ending

c.

low

b.

beginning

d.

turning

15.

The attack on what area caused Congress to declare war in 1941?

a.

Britain

c.

Bataan

b.

Pearl Harbor

d.

Normandy

16.

Douglas MacArthur was the commander of the Allied forces in

a.

the Atlantic.

c.

the Pacific.

b.

Italy.

d.

France.

17.

General Douglas MacArthur adopted a strategy known as

a.

island hopping.

c.

the Manhattan Project.

b.

kamikaze.

d.

V-J Day.

18.

War crime trials for the Nazis were held in

a.

Beijing.

c.

Paris.

b.

Nuremberg.

d.

London.

19.

“On Sunday afternoon I was resting, trying to relax
from the grind of the past weeks . . . . I was rather abstractedly looking at a Sunday paper when the
telephone rang and Louise Hackmeister said sharply:

“‘The President wants you right away.
There's a car on the way to pick you up. The Japs just bombed Pearl Harbor!’

“With no more words and without time for me to make a single remark,
she cut off the connection. . . . In twenty minutes I was drawing into the White House driveway,
already swarming with extra police and an added detail of Secret Service men, with news and radio
reporters beginning to stream into the Executive Office wing. . . .”

The events
described in this passage took place in

a.

September 1939.

c.

August 1914.

b.

December 1941.

d.

August 1945.

20.

“. . .Then, on the way home, some Focke-Wulfs
[German fighter aircraft] showed up, armed with rockets, and I saw three B-17s in the
different groups around us suddenly blow up and drop through the sky. Just simply blow up and drop
through the sky. Nowadays, if you come across something awful happening, you always think, ‘My
God, it's just like a movie,’ and that's what I thought. I had a feeling that the
planes weren't really falling and burning, the men inside them weren't really dying, and
everything would turn out happily in the end. Then, very quietly through the interphone, our tail
gunner said, ‘I'm sorry, sir, I've been hit. . . .’”

–Joseph Theodore Hallock, bombardier on a
B-17

“Flying Fortress”

This passage
conveys the feeling of _____ experienced by an American airman as he flew on a World War II bombing
mission over Germany.

a.

excitement

c.

unreality

b.

anticipation

d.

terror

21.

“I visited Treblinka to find out how
they carried out their extermination. The camp commandant at Treblinka told me that he had liquidated
80,000 in the course of half a year. He was principally concerned with liquidating all the Jews from
the Warsaw ghetto.“He used monoxide gas and I did not think that his methods were very
efficient. So when I set up the extermination building at Auschwitz, I used Zyklon B, which was a
crystallized prussic acid which we dropped into the death chamber from a small opening. It took from
three to fifteen minutes to kill the people in the death chamber, depending upon climatic
conditions.”

–Rudolf Hoess, testifying at the
Nuremberg war crimes trials

In this excerpt from his testimony, the man
in charge of the Auschwitz speaks about _____ in a clinical manner.

a.

more humane prisoner treatment

b.

difficulties in getting enough
food

c.

a more efficient method of killing

d.

the bureaucratic complexities of his
job

22.

“ . . .The first bomb hit near the officers'
quarters, the next struck the patients' mess just a few yards away. The concussion bounced us
three feet off the cement floor and threw us down again. Beds were tumbling down. Flashes of heat and
smoke burned our eyes. But through it all we could hear Father Cummings' voice reciting the
Lord's Prayer. He never faltered, never even fell to the ground, and the patients never moved.
Father Cummings' clear voice went through to the end. Then he turned quietly and said:
‘All right, you take over. Put a tourniquet on my arm, will you?’ And we saw for the
first time that he'd been badly hit by shrapnel. . . .”

–Bataan, Hospital 1, a nurse’s account, 1942

This account
of the Japanese bombing of the hospital on Bataan shows one person’s great _____ under
fire.

a.

fear

c.

anger

b.

bravery

d.

panic

23.

U.S. Losses at Pearl
Harbor

Human Casualties

Killed

Wounded

Navy

1,998

710

Marine Corps

109

69

Army

233

364

Civilian

48

35

According to the chart, what group suffered the second highest casualty rate at Pearl Harbor?

a.

U.S. Navy

c.

U.S. Army

b.

U.S. Marine Corps

d.

U.S. civilian
population

24.

Based on the map, what was the easternmost
point of conflict in the Pacific theater of war?

a.

Pearl Harbor

c.

Hiroshima

b.

Midway

d.

Burma

25.

Study the map. Where is Manila?

a.

French Indochina

c.

Netherlands Indies

b.

Japan

d.

Philippine
Islands

26.

Based on the information on
the map, which of the following United States ships was not sunk in the attack on Pearl
Harbor?

a.

Oglala

c.

Nevada

b.

Arizona

d.

Utah

27.

Based on the diagram of the
USS Cassin Young, what took up the most space of the middle section of an American
destroyer?

a.

Steering Gear & Galley

c.

Crew Mess & Enlisted
Quarters

b.

Engine Room & Boiler Room

d.

Pilot House & Officers’
Quarters

Essay - Directions: Answer ONE of the following prompts below in a
well-developed paragraph of at least eight sentences, featuring a topic sentence, supporting detail
and a conclusion.

28.

Describe the different points of view in the debate over the use of the atomic
bomb and explain why Truman finally decided to use it. What have been the long-term consequences of
Truman’s decision?

29.

Explain how the U.S. military strategy of "island hopping" was used in
the battle for the Pacific. What were the results?

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